Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed's critically acclaimed novel Torch, was published by Hougton Mifflin in 2006. Torch was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and was selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books by Pacific Northwest authors. Strayed's award-winning stories and essays have appeared in over a dozen magazines, journals, and anthologies, including twice in the Best American Essays.

The Book of Joan (2017)Lidia Yuknavitch"Riveting, ravishing, and crazy deep, The Book of Joan is as ferociously intelligent as it is heart-wrenchingly humane, as generous as it is relentless, as irresistible as it is important. In other words, it’s classic Lidia Yuknavitch: genius."